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The language instinct Steven Pinker
Publisher: Perennial (HarperCollins)

There are, of course, many arguments we could make, and perhaps the most eloquent expression of those is Steven Pinker's fantastic book The Language Instinct. "A three-year-old toddler is "a grammatical genius"--master of most constructions, obeying adult rules of language. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) By Steven Pinker. Outside of the lab, though, he was fascinated by a far less tractable question: How does the human brain learn language? Steven Pinker Harper Perennial, 1995. The language instinct: How the mind creates language. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.. Of course, the debate is far from new (see Tomasello's review of Pinker's The language instinct for instance). Spelling: Development, disability, and instruction. One caveat: as anyone who has ever read The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (which I think of as Linguistics 101) would know, we don't actually think in language. I adored Private Arrangements and made a point of getting Delicious at the at the RWA booksigning in San Francisco in July. The plan yesterday was to (finally) start reading Sherry Thomas's Delicious.